Take Route 80 to exit 12 to Hope. Turn onto Route 519 north at blinking
light. At third right, turn onto Shiloh Road. Approximately 1 mile, turn right
onto State Park Road.

Geology:

The dramatic effects of glacier activity can be seen in the state
forest. Much of the boulders and debris from the last glacier were transported
by meltwater to the edge of the ice where it was deposited in huge ridges called
moraines.

Fairy Hole rock shelter is located at the northeastern end of Jenny Jump
Mountain. As of 1968 (Wacker:21, 31) it contained the best preserved and
largest number of animal bones ever associated with an historic Indian site in
the Highlands. It even contained teeth of elk and the now extinct Giant
Beaver.

History:

The nearby town of Hope was famous for its Moravian Settlement,
founded in 1769.

On May 31, 2000, 724 acres of forested mountain ridge and open fields were
added to Jenny Jump State Forest. The tract, purchased from the Pequest Property
Company after nearly five years of negotiations and through the perseverance of
Green Acres' staffers Jim Bresnen and Renée Jones and former staffers John
Denlinger and Kerri Ratcliffe, borders Allamuchy Mountain State Park, at the
junction of County Route 517 and Interstate 80, in Allamuchy Township. This
newest addition to New Jersey's system of state forests is situated along the
Jenny Jump Mountains of Warren County, and will begin a greenway connector
westward along Route 80 and the upper watershed of the Pequest River, toward
Jenny Jump State Forest.

The property comprises open agricultural fields and mixed hardwood forest -
which until the onslaught of the wooly adelgid included abundant Eastern Hemlock
- with rock outcroppings, glacial erratics and beautiful views of the
surrounding ridges and valleys. Jenny Jump rises to approximately 1,100 feet
above sea level, and is one of several large Precambrian gneissic overthrust
sheets within the Kittatinny Valley. The mountain top echoed with the sounds of
iron mining during the late 1800's. By the turn of the twentieth century, the
property was a portion of the vast holdings of John Rutherford Stuyvesant. The
Rutherford Mansion was built in 1903-1904 and is presently the Villa Madonna. (Source:
http://www.state.nj.us/dep/greenacres/pequest.htm)

After a trailside lunch and a view of black cohosh (Cimicifuga
racemosa) in bud, we climbed to the Summit Trail where the
terrain was drier and more open to a passing breeze. On a rock-pile
was a vine rare in New Jersey, purple clematis (Clematis
occidentalis) that had twined its leaf-stems around a chokecherry
(Prunus virginiana) in its reach for sunlight. The large
translucent flowers of early May were now silvery plumed achenes.
Shortstalk arrowwood (Viburnum rafinesquianum) and striped maple
(Acer pensylvanica) were well-represented, and both pasture rose
(Rosa carolina) and mountain laurel (Kalmia latifolia) were in
full bloom. Other plants in flower were common dewberry (Rubus
flagellaris), narrow-leaved blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium
angustifolium, pale corydalis (Corydalis sempervirens), Venus'
looking-glass (Triodanis perfoliata), and cow-wheat (Melampyrum
lineare), as well as various hawkweeds, Hieracium caespitosum, H.
pilosella, H. piloselloides, and H. venosum. Alumroot (Heuchera
americana), downy shadbush (Amelanchier arborea), hairy Solomon's
seal (Polygonatum pubescens), and smooth Solomon's seal (P.
biflorum) were at the fruiting stage. A monumental glacial
erratic and a glacier-carved rounded hill in the near-distance
were also points of interest. Finally, on the way down to the
parking area, a fourth Arabis was seen, lyre-leaved rock-cress (A.
lyrata), with both fruit and flowers.